I used to follow mujico.org, home of !memelas@mujico.org. I think it doesn’t federate correctly, or maybe it’s blocked or something…
Dear customer: Great news! We are screwups so we just kind of assumed your package would be late, but in this ONE case, we are apparently not going to screw up as bad as we usually do! Please do not expect this level of excellence in the future.
Yeah, that’s the approach I use too. Eventually I’ll have 2-3 versions of my resume/CV, and a file of typical paragraphs to put in a cover letter. Ideally I’ll have some kind of connection to the company, like: “in a conversation with (Name) at (conference), I learned of your work in (whatever)” or “I am familiar with (product/process) from applying it to my work on (previous work).” Whenever I’m hiring, that sort of cover letter tells me that at least they’ve taken the time to learn about the company, so it’s less likely a waste of time to interview them.
See, this is why I keep speech recognition turned off…
Well they were planning on Effing it, so maybe they were wearing “protection”.
Or: memes and complaints.
This lady needs to hook up with Charlie Kelly: King of the Rats.
And it realizes the only creatures who can stop it are the cats.
A different person here. FWIW I sometimes get texts and email from a friend that are extremely long and detailed and I was like WTF, I woulda assumed he’s an AI if I didn’t know the guy in person. Then one day we were hanging and I saw him reply to a text, and turns out he was speaking his replies and using speech recognition.
The poachers just taught gorillas how to make traps. Now the gorillas are gonna go full Rambo on them.
My favorite part is the snake with the skin like a human, in the garden of Eden. That always freaked me out as a kid.
Some people post full action movies to youtube. It’s interesting bc they use various techniques to avoid the copyright-detection bots: they append long segments of unrelated video after the movie, they manipulate the “thumbnail” that shows when you mouse-over the timeline, I think they AI-generate thumbnails that aren’t actually clips from the movie, and of course they use text that describes the movie without actually using the movie name. The accounts look like they’ve been around a while, with “video blog” style posts in different languages. In the comments, people without an adblock strategy complain about the large number of ads, so I’m guessing the posters are trying to maximize uptime to make more ad money?
The movies are usually only up a day or two before the algorithms figure it out (or they get manually reported?) and they’re taken down but a lot of times they get resposted. I suspect it’s ongoing and I just stumbled into it now bc I was looking for movies to post to !fullmoviesonyoutube@lemm.ee . Anyway, uBO is still working on youtube, so I watched a couple of those recently.
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy.
There’s horror in his head already, mom’s spaghetti
The litter is what awakens Lord Cthulhu.
Take a look at the movie “Threads” about the effects of a nuclear war. It’s from back in the cold war, but a lot of it remains relevant:
That’s an excellent point. Hundreds of years ago, if you wanted to recomment the product of a particularly skilled soapmaker or farmer, you’d say “Jo made that”, and maybe you could point to Jo’s logo on the product so your friends knew how to recognize it. So the signifier of quality (the brand) pointed to the signified of a quality product. But now the signifier has become disentangled from the signified: the advertisements and marketing campaigns promote brand loyalty even if the product becomes worse through inferior ingredients or shrinkflation. Because of this, the signifier is presented to us when we do not want to see it.
Businesses get on board and start the horrible ad infestation
There were a couple years where businesses were “entering cyberspace” and still trying to figure it out. Mostly this involved static webpages, since they saw the web as a kind of yellow pages. i.e. a business’ web page was their ad.
people are apparently fine with ads
It amazes me how accepting most people are of ads. I suspect Google’s going to win, and their ultimate contribution to humanity will be forcing ads into everything.
Yeah, beehaw defederated from lemmy.world, home of !cat@lemmy.world.